List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1984

These are the Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits of 1984. Overall, Prince spent the most weeks at number one in 1984, reigning for seven weeks at the top with "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy" (with the Revolution). However, "Like a Virgin" by Madonna had the longest run at number one of any song which rose into the top position during 1984. Though it spent only two weeks at number one at the end of the year, it went on to spend an additional four weeks at the top to begin 1985, for a total of six weeks.

That year, 15 acts achieved their first number one song, such as Yes, Culture Club, Van Halen, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran, Prince, Ray Parker, Jr., Tina Turner, John Waite, The Revolution, Billy Ocean, Wham!, and Madonna. Prince was the only act to hit number one more than once that year, with two.

Chart history
Singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Prince scored two number one singles with "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy" with the Revolution. Overall, Prince spent seven weeks atop the chart.
American hard rock band Van Halen gained their first and only number-one single in the chart with "Jump", which spent five weeks in the chart.
Singer Tina Turner gained her first and only U.S. number-one single with "What's Love Got to Do with It". Turner was 44 when the song spent three weeks at the top, at the time making her the oldest female solo artist to top the US Hot 100.
Key
The yellow background indicates the #1 song on Billboard's 1984 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles.
No. Issue Date Song Artist(s) Ref.
542 January 7 "Say Say Say" Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson [1]
January 14 [2]
543 January 21 "Owner of a Lonely Heart" Yes [3]
January 28 [4]
544 February 4 "Karma Chameleon" Culture Club [5]
February 11 [6]
February 18 [7]
545 February 25 "Jump" Van Halen [8]
March 3 [9]
March 10 [10]
March 17 [11]
March 24 [12]
546 March 31 "Footloose" Kenny Loggins [13]
April 7 [14]
April 14 [15]
547 April 21 "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" Phil Collins [16]
April 28 [17]
May 5 [18]
548 May 12 "Hello" Lionel Richie [19]
May 19 [20]
549 May 26 "Let's Hear It for the Boy" Deniece Williams [21]
June 2 [22]
550 June 9 "Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper [23]
June 16 [24]
551 June 23 "The Reflex" Duran Duran [25]
June 30 [26]
552 July 7 "When Doves Cry" Prince [27]
July 14 [28]
July 21 [29]
July 28 [30]
August 4 [31]
553 August 11 "Ghostbusters" Ray Parker, Jr. [32]
August 18 [33]
August 25 [8]
554 September 1 "What's Love Got to Do with It" Tina Turner [34]
September 8 [35]
September 15 [36][37]
555 September 22 "Missing You" John Waite [38][39]
556 September 29 "Let's Go Crazy" Prince and the Revolution [40]
October 6 [41][42]
557 October 13 "I Just Called to Say I Love You" Stevie Wonder [43][44]
October 20 [45][46]
October 27 [47][48]
558 November 3 "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" Billy Ocean [49][50]
November 10 [51][52]
559 November 17 "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" Wham! [53][54]
November 24 [55][56]
December 1 [57][58]
560 December 8 "Out of Touch" Daryl Hall and John Oates [59][60]
December 15 [61][62]
561 December 22 "Like a Virgin" Madonna [63][64]
December 29 [65]

See also

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Additional sources
  • Fred Bronson's Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits, 5th Edition (ISBN 0-8230-7677-6)
  • Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2008, 12 Edition (ISBN 0-89820-180-2)
  • Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Eighties (ISBN 0-89820-079-2)
  • Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
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